Culture
A Sunday celebration at the Lakeside Garden Center celebrated the indigenous roots of restorative justice.
Bay Area residents attended the Jonestown tragedy’s 36th anniversary at the Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland on Tuesday.
Creating an altar can be a private ritual, but altars have also become a platform for people to express their views on social and political issues, especially those that involve death.
Without the cells of Henrietta Lacks, the world would have no polio vaccine, cancer treatments, or in-vitro fertilization. This year, Samuel Merritt University will learn about her life as one community, and through it important lessons in medical ethics, informed consent, and human compassion.
An Oakland pop-up cafe seeks to utilize a recipe-for-success to brighten futures for local girls and young women.
Crowds came to the Fruitvale Village to celebrate the sacred Latin American holiday Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead on the first Sunday of November.
Thousands attended the East Bay Mini Maker Faire, an annual gathering of inventors, technologists, engineers, science clubs and artists. The event included 170 projects, such as mini-robots, a home-made butter shaker and a clothing swap.
The first things I had to learn were Jack o’ lantern, trick or treat, and you better get a costume! A week ago, I started seeing people on the bus, in grocery stores and other places, with pumpkins, real or plastic. To me, the pumpkin is a vegetable that can be cooked with Sudanese peanut butter, or with meat, to become pumpkin stew. In some villages the dry pumpkin is cut in the shape of a cup that is used…
The plant exchange began in 2007, when Pollarhad the idea to invite her neighbors and friends to a gathering held in her backyard lawn.